-5 BY S. B. BOW. CLEARFIELD, PA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1857. VOL. 51. 1 WAST A STEADY MAX, I'm getting tired of single life, And see no reason why The eps and downs of married Ufa I should not boldly try ; I'm certain I should do my best To end as I began, And try and please, if I but had A quiet, steady man. If I hare hd no offer yet, There's lesa of need, yoa sce, For any one who thinks of me. To harbor jealousy. I own I long hare passed my teens, And think the wisest plan Is to look out for one to suit - I want a steady man ; One who ill do the best abroad To help his wife at home. Who promises that he shall hare No need from her to roam ; Who is content with competence, Nor socks to lead the ran ; "Whose greatest pride is but to be Known as a steady man. CHANCES AND CHANGES. . BT MRS. FRANCIS D. GAGE. "1 say, Mr. Conductor, when will the nest express train go out to St. Louis V "Eleven o'clock and thirty minutes to-night, sir," was the gentlerranly reply to the rough query. 'Eleven o'clock and thirty minutes! Goto Texas ! Why, it's ten this very minute, I'll bet my boots against a jack knife the morning express is off." "Yes, sir, it ha3 been gone half an hour." "Why in nature didn't you get us here soon er 7 Fourteen hours in Chicager is enough to break a fellow all to smash. Fourteen hours in Chicager, puffing and blowing ! I've been told they keep a regular six hundred boss steam power all the while a running, to blow themselves up with, and pick the pockets of every traveler to pay the firemen and engin eers ! Wal, I guess I can stand it ; I've a twenty that's never been broke, I think that will put me through. Why didn't you fire up, old brag give your old hoss another peck of oats 1 I tel! ye, this fourteen hours will knock n.y calculations all Into the middle of next week." "Very sorry, sir we've done our best ; but as we are not clerks of the weather, I hope you will not lay your misfortunes to our ac count. Snow drifts and the thermometer six teen below zero, are enemies we can not readi ly overcome.' "That's so," said the first speaker, with broad emphasis, and a good natured, forgiving smile. "Fourteen hours in Chicager!" The stentorian, voice, sounding like a trumpet, had aroused every sleeper from ely sian dreams jn to which be might have fallen after bis long, tedious, cold night's travel- Every head was turned, every eye was fixed on the man who had broke the silence. He was standing by the stove warming his boots. To have warmed his feet through such a mass of cowhide and sole leather, would have been a fourteen hours' operation. Six feet four or five inches he stood ic those boots, with shoulders (cased in a iur coat) that looked more like bearing up a world than yoa will meet ordina rily, in half a lifetime. His head Webstcrian, his shaggy hair black as jet, his whiskers to watch, his dark, pieicingeye, and his jaws c- ternally moving, with s rousing quid between them, while a smile of cheerful good humor, notwithstanding his seeming impatience, at tracted every one's attention. "Fourteen hours in Chicager, eh 1 Wal, I can stand it, If the rest can ; if twenty dollars won't carry me through, I'll borry oi my friends, Pre got the things that'll bring 'em, That's so." : And be thrust his hand, a little less ins?ze than a common spade, down into the caver sous depths of a broad striped, flashy pair of jnnta, and brought np that great red hand, full as It could hold, of shining twenty dollar gold pieces. "Don't yer think I can stand these ere Chi eagers for one fourteen hours?" - A nod of assent from three or four, and a smile of curiosity from the rest, answered his question in the affirmative. "You must baTO been in luck, stranger,' said an envious looking little man, "you've more than your share of gold." . 4 . "I have, eh 7 Well, I reckon not. I came ' honestly by it. That's to. And there's them living who can remember this, child when he went Found the p'raries trapping p'rarry hens and the like, to get him a night lodging, or a pair of shoet, to keep the Maasasanger from biting tny toes I'ye hung myself up more nor one night in the timber, to keep out of the way of the wild varmints; best sleeping in the world, in the crotch of a tree top ! Now, I reckon yon wouldn't believe it,' but I've gene all winter without a shoe to my f oot ; and lived en viM ffamft. when I could ketch It. That's "Didn't 6tunt your growth," said a voice ,rTot a bit of It." 'It brought me up right. These p'rarries are wonderful roomy. thought one spell I would let myself out en tirely, but mother and me held a corens, and decided that she was getting old, and blind like, it tuk too long, and cost too innch time to aew np the legs of my trousers, and so I put a step to it, and concluded that six foot five would do for a feller that couldn't afford the expensive luxury cf a wife to make bis breeches. It was only bt love for my mother that rtopped my growth. If I'd a had an Idea V 8 mtne, there's no telling what might a done "You have so many gold pieces in your pock et, you can afford to get your trousers made now. Why don't you and your mother caucus, and see what you can do f If she would let you expand yourself you might sell out to Bar num, and make a fortune travelling with Tom Thumb, and take the old woman along." "Stranger !" said the rough, great man, and his whole face loomed with a mingled expres sion of pain and pride "stranger! I spoke a word here I didn't mean to ; a slightly word, like, about my mother. I would giro all the gold m my pocket to bring her b:ick, for one hour, to look upon the country as it is now. She had her cabin here, when Chicager was no where ; here she raised her boys she couldn't ive them larnin,' but she taught us better things than books can give to be honest, and useful, and industrious. She taught us to be faithful and true ; to stand by a friend, and be generous to an enemy. It's thirty years, stranger, since we dug her grave by the lake side with our own hands ; and, with many a tear and sob, turned ourselves away from the cabin where we'd been raised the Indians had killed our father long before, and we'd nothing to keep us and so we went to seek our for- unes. My brother, he took down to St. Louis, and got married down there som'ers; and I just went where the wind blowed,and when I'd scraped money enough together, I came back and bought a few acres of land around my mother's old cabin, for the place where I'd lain her bones was sacred, like. Well, in the courso of t:me, it turned right up in the mid dle of Chicager. I couldn't stand that I lored my old mother too well to let omnibusses rattle over her grave, so I cum back about fifteen years ago, and quietly moved her away to the buryin' ground ; and then I went back to Texas, and wrote to an agent arterward to sell my land. What cost a few hundred to begin on, I sold for over forty thousand if I'd a kept it ill now, it would have been worth ten times that ; that's so, but I got enough for't. I soon turned that forty thousand into eighty thou sand, and that into twice as much, and so on, till I don't know nor don't care what I'm worth ; that's so. I work hard, am tLe same rough customer, remember every day of my life what my mother taught me ; never drink, nor fight ; wish I didn't swear and chaw; but them got to be kind a second natur' like, and the only thing that troubles me is my money haven't got no wile nor children, and I'm going to hunt up ray brother and his folks. If his boys is clever and industrious, ain't ashamed of my big boots and old fashioned ways, and his gals is young women, and not ladies ; If they help their mother, and don't put on mor'n two frocks a day, I'll make 'era rich, every one of 'era. Now, gentlemen, 'taint often I'm led to tell on myself alter this fashion. But these old places, where I trapped when I was a boy, made mo feci like a child agin and I just felt like telling these youngsters here about the changes and chances a feller may meet in life, if he only tries to make the most of himself. "But, boys," said he, turning to a party of young men, "there's, something better than money. Get Education. Why, boys, if I had as much larnin' as money, I could be President in 18G0. just as e-a.-s-y. Why, I could buy up half the North, and not miss it from my pile. But get larnin'; don't chaw tobacco ; don't take to liquor; don't swear; and mind your mothers that's the advice of a real live Speak er; and if you mind what I say you may be men, (and it ain't every fellow that wears a goatee and breeches, that's a man, by a long ways.) Foller out her counsels ; never do a thing that will make you ashamed to meet her in heaven. Why, boys, I never r done a bad thing but I heard my mother's voice reprovin . ' . me ; and I never aone a gooa imng ana raaae a good move, but I've seemed to. hear her say, "That's right, Jack," and that has been the best of all. Nothin' like a mother, boys ; nothin' like a mother that's so." All this had passed while waiting to wood just outside of Chicago. The great man was swel ling with emotions called up from the dark shadows of the past ; bis big, rough, heavy frame' heaved like a great billew" upon the ocean. Tears sprang to his deep set and earn est eyes they swelled up to the brim and swam around asking to be let fall as tributes to his mother's memory tributes to the love of the past. But he choked them down, and humming a snatch of an old ballad, be thrust his hands down into his pockets, walked back to the end of the car, pulled the gigantic col lar of his shaggy coat up around his ears, but toned it close, and leaned back against the win dow in silence. ' , . ' The cars rattled on. What a mind was there I what a giant intellect, sleeping, buried away from light and usefulness by a rubbish of pre judice, habit and custom doing but half work for want of culture! "A mute, inglorious Milton," or rather Webster, going about the world, struggling with his own 60ul, yet bound in chains of ignorance, ' which precluded his doing but a moiety of the good in bis power to do. - :- ' ' ' All the war on our long, -tedious journey, he had ever been on the watch to do good. He gave up his aeat by the fire, to an Irish woman and her child, and took one further bade soon a yoong girl seated herself by bi aide as the i.Ain wore on. nd she nodded wearily, be rose, spread hli"beutif ul leopard kin with its soft, rich lining, on the seat, made a pillow of his carpet bag and insisted that she should lie down and sleep. "What will you do ?" said she, naively. "Never mind me I can stand up and sleep like a buffalo ; I'm used to it that's so !" A little boy, pulled up from a sound nap to give place to incomers, was pacified and made happy by a handful of chestnuts and a glow ing bit of candy out of the big man's pocket. When lie left the cars for refreshments, he brought back a handful of pies, and distrbuted them among a weary group. A mother and seven little children, the eldest not twelve years old, whose husband and father left the cars at erry stopping place, and returned more stupid and beastly each time, scolding the tired, restless ones, with thick tongue, and glaring his furious red eyes upon tho poor grieved victim of a wife, like a tiger ou its prey, "because she did not keep her youug one still; they would disturb everybody." No bite of refreshment, no exhilarating draught, no rest from that fat, cross baby, came to her all the long night, save when the big man stretched out his great hand aud took her baby boy for an hour, and let him play with his splendid watch to keep him quiet. "I'll give yer a thousand dollars for him," said he as he handed him back to her arms. "You may have the whole lot for that," an swered the drunken man, with a swinelike grunt. "It's a bargain," said the big man, "pro vldin' the mother's willing." "Indeed, sir, its not one of them that can be had for money," was the quiet yet deter mined response of the mother's heart. now kindly he helped her off the cars when, at the break of day, they came to their jour ney's end ! Thus, all night, he had been attracting the attention of the ing ones in the cars. But his kindness and rough politeness would soon have been forgotten by the mass of the passen gers, had he not stamped it upon our memo ries with gold. "I wonder who he is ?" " Where did he get on ?" "What an Interesting character ?" "Ed ucation would spoil him." What rich furs !" "Did you notice what a splendid watch he car ries V "lie's some great man, incog:." Such were a few of the queries that passed from lip to lip. But there came no answer, for he, who alone could have answerdd, sat crouching in his fur coat, seemingly uncon scious of his own deep thoughts. "Chicago !" shouted the brakesman, and in an instant all was confusion, and our hero was lost in the crowd. The next we saw of him was at the baggage stand, looking up a band box for a sweet looking country girl who was going to learn the milliner's trade in the city. As we passed to our carraige we discovered him again, holding an old man by the hand, while he grasped the shoulder of the conduc tor of another train with the other, getting for the deaf, gray haired sire, tho right informa tion as to the route he should take to get to "his darter" who lived near Muscatine, Iowa. "God bless him for his good deeds!" was our earnest aspiration, as we whirled around the comer. May his shadow never grow less, or the gold In bis pocket diminish, for in his unnumbered charities and mercies, dropped so unostentatiously here and there, he is, per haps, doing more good in his day and genera- rion, than he who denotes his thousands to build charitable institutions, to give honor to his own name.' ' Oh, how much the world needs great hearts that are capable to comprehend little things ! and yet how often it happens that the learned, the wise, and the rich, outgrow the everyday wants of humanity, and, feeling within them selves the power to move mightily, pass by the humble duties thatewould make a thousand hearts leap with joy and push on, looking for some wrong to right, some great sorrow to be soothed, some giant work to be accomplished ; and failing to find the great work, live and die, incarcerated by their own selfishness, and do nothing at all I " - - The rough man's nature seemed the nature of the little chiid. His quick eye saw at a glance ; his great heart warmed, and his great hand executed his little works of charity so small that one would have expected to sec them slipjbetwecn his giant fingers unaccomplished yet they were donev The "angel over his shoulder" will have a longer column to sot down to his account of deeds well done, than all tho rest of the passengers of that crowded passenger car, on that long, tedious, stormy night, in January, 1856. . .4ar . ; - The Newport, Kentucky, News says that a slave was chained np and beaten to death re cently in Pulaski county, by a Mr. St'igal, his owner, who gave him one hundred lashes a day for six days, and would have given him anoth er hundred, but he was dead the seventh mor ning. The cause of the slave's whipping was his going to see his wife, on the next planta tion, after having been forbidden. '; ; Tho Jersey City Telegraph says that about 2500 cans of milk, containing 40 quart each, or in the aggregate 100,000 quarts, are' bro't to that city every day, of which the New Jer sey company brings from Essex, Union, Mid dlesex and Somerset counties about CC0 can. The freight on all Is about $700, and. the ceipts at 6 cente per quart, la $6000. PRAISE YOUR WIFE. Praise your wile, man ; for pity's sake, give her a little encouragement ; it wont hurt her. She has made your homo comfortable, your hearth bright and shining, your food agreea ble. For pity's sake, tell her you tharik her, if nothing more. She don't expect it; it will make her eyes open wider than they have for these ten years ; but it will do her good for all that, and yon too. There arc many women to-day thirsting for the word of praise, the language of encourage ment. Through summer's heat and winter's toil they have drudged uncomplainingly ; and so accustomed have their fathers, brothers and husbands become to their monotonous labors, that they look' for and upon them as they do upon the daily -rising of the sun, and its daily going down. Homely every-day life may be made beautiful by an appreciation of its very homeliness. You know that if the floor is clean, manual labor has been performed to make it so. You know that if you can take from your drawer a white shirt whenever you want it, somebody's fingers have ached in the task of making it so fresh and agreeable, so smooth and lustrous. Everything that pleases tho eye and the sense has been produced by constant work, much thought, great care and untiring efforts, bodily and mentally. It is not that many men do not appreciate these things, and feel a glow of gratitude for the numberless attentions bestowed upon them in sickness and in health ; but they are so self ish in that feeling. They don't come out w ith a hearty "Why, how pleasant you make things look, wife ;" or, "I am obliged to you for ta king so much pains." They thank the tailor for giving them "fits ;" they thank the man in the full omnibus who gives them a seat ; they thank the young lady who moves along in the concert room ; in short, they thank everybody and everything out of doors because it is the custom ; and they come home, tip their chairs back and their heels up, pull out the newspa per, grumble if wife asks them to take the ba by, scold if the fire has got down ; or, if ev erything is just right, shut their mouths with a smack of satisfaction, but never say to her, "I thank you." I tell you what, men, young and old, if you did but show an ordinary civility toward those common articles of housekeeping, your wives ; if you gave the one hundred and sixtieth part of the compliments you almost choked them with before they were married ; if you would stop your badinage about who you are going to have when number one is dead, (such things wives may laugh at, but they sink deep, some limes ;) if you would cease to speak of her faults, however banteringly, before others, few er women would seek for other sources of hap piness than your cold, so-so-ish affection Praise your wife, then, for all the good quali ties she has, and you may rest assured that her deficiencies are fully counterbalanced by your own. A "TAIL" OF A "SSAIK." "Animals," says the lawyer, "sometimes very nearly approach reason in their cunning "I got interested In the study of serpents down in Arkansas, where I spent most of last year. I don't know why, but I was constantly watching them and testing their sagacity, by placing them in a new situation, and surroun ding them with novel experiments. Of all kinds, I experimented most with rattlesnakes and copperheads. - "One afternoon I seated myself on a little knoll in the woods to smoke and read for I always had a book or a newspaper with me, and had been enjoying myself for some time when I espied a copperhead making for a hole within ten feet of where I sat. Of course I threw down my book and cigar, and proceeded to try a new experiment. As soon as I stir red the. rascal made a rush for the hole; but I caught the tail as he got nearly in, and jerk ed him some twenty feet backward. He threw bfmself into a coil in no time, and waited for me to pitch in. But I concluded not to let hira try his hole again. ' "After a while he - started for it, stopping when I stirred to coil himself up ; but as I kept pretty quiet, he recovered confidence and again went in. Again I jerked him out No sooner did he hit the ground than he made a grand rush for the holo in a straight line for my legs ! But that didn't work, for I got out of the way, and gave him another flirt. "This time he lay still awhile, appearing to reflect on the course to be taken. Altera time he tried it again, though rather slowly. After getting his head a little way in, he stop ped and wriggled bis tail, as if on purpose for me to grab it.' I did so ; and quicker ; than a flash he drew his bead oat, and came within a quarter . of an inch of striking me in the face. However, I jerked him qujte a distance, and resolved to look out the next time Well, he tried the same game again, but it wouldn't workr-I was too quick for him. - . . "This time he lay in a coil half an hour, without Stirring. At last, however, he tried It once more. He advanced to within five feet of the. hole very alowly, coiled again, and then, by heavens ! got the start of me by one of the cutest tricks you ever heard of .'f , : . ; ' ;How was Ul" we all exclaimed, in one breath... . : - fv- .v.- ?. "Why," aaid the aarrator, linking his voice to the acm oi oleinaity and looking as hon est and as a man could look, "tchy he just tur ned his head towards tny hand, and trad doicn that hole tail first .'" Facts for tue Curious. Thomas Jefferson and John Adams both died on the 4th of July, 182C. John Adams died in his 91st year, and was eight years older than Thomas Jefferson ; Thomas Jefferson was eight years older than James Madison ; James Madison was eight years older than James Monroe ; James Mon roe was eight years older than John Q. Ad ams. The hrst nre or our 1'residents all rev olutionary men ended the ;erms of their ser vice in the 60th year of their age. Washing ton born Feb. 22d 1732, inaugurated 17S3, term of service expired in the 6Cth year of his ngc ; John Adams born Oct. 19th 1735, in augurated 1797, term of service expired in the 6Gth year of his age ; Thomas Jefferson born April 21st 1743, inaugurated 1801. term of ser vice expired in the CCth year of his age ; James Madison, born March 4th 1751, inaugu rated 1S09, term of service expired in the CCth year of his age ; James Monroe, born April 2d 1759, inangu.ated 1817, term of service ex pired in the CCth year of his age. Making axd Savisg Mancres. In a re cent meeting of the Legislative Agricultural Club of Connecticut, this subject was under discussion, and there was a rcry unanimous concurrence in the opinion, that the value of barn-yard manure is much increased by keep ing it under cover. Barnyards washed by ev ery rain, and manuro heaps subject to the rain and to the sunshine lose vast amounts of their valuable constituents. One of the speakers stated that he had raa.de fifty to seventy loads of manure from two hogs, lie uses anything that can grow in one season mullens, brush, alders, etc. All such material will rot in a hog-pen ; makes more manure in his hog-pen than in the yard, and keeps his yard manure as much under cover as possible. Free Love-ism m Ohio. Free love-ism has broken out in Ohio. At a recent convention in Ravenna, Mrs. Lewis said, "although she had one husband in Cleveland, she considered herself married to the whole human race. All men were her husbands, and she had an undying love for them." She said also, "what business is it to the world whether one man is the father of my children or ten men are t I have the right to say who shall be the father of my offspring." The universal affection creed is crossed with spiritualism and a very strong trace of religious infidelity. Whether the three will become incorporated into a new religion is yet a subject of doubt, though there are strong leanings that way. MrsTiRiocs Disease. The National Ho tel disease" has suddenly made its appearance in the capital of Kussia. After a dinner which took place at a large educational establish ment in St. Petersburg for.the daughters of the nobility, under the patronage of the Em press, a number of young persons who were present on the occasion were taken suddenly ill. Fivo of them died within twenty-four hours, and -the sixth was in the greatest dan ger. The Emperor visited the establishment, and ordered a most searching investigation "to be instituted, but nothing has yet been discov ered to throw light on the subject. A Safe Man to Ixsfhe. By a steamboat explosion on a Western river, a passenger was thrown unhurt into the water, and at once struck out lnstily for the shore, blowing like a porpcise ail the while. Ho reached the bank almost exhausted, and was caught by a by stander and drawn out panting. . "Well, old fellow," said his friend, "had a hard time, eh V "Yc-yes, pre-pretty hard, considering Wasn't doin' it for myself, though ; was a workin' for one o' them insurance offices in New York. Got a policy on my life, and I wanted to save them. I didn't care," Judge Wilmot's letter in favor of true A merican principles, says the Reading Journal, has completely knocked the breath out of the "side-door" operators. Their occupation is gone. The rank and file are ercry where flock ing to- the Union standard. Sanderson & Co. find themselres in the position of leaders with out a party. They had better come out as flat footed Locofocos, and be done with it. The farce is as good as played out. In five years from the present date Russia will have attained the ago of one thousand years, an event to be celebrated by the erec tion of a monument, for which a subscription has been set on foot. The monument is to be built in the city of Novogorod, the capital of the first ruler of the empire, and voluntary con tributions in aid of its erection will be received by government officials throughout the empire until 1862. Chief Justice Carter, of Evansvillc, Ind., and two constables of that city, aro now in jail there, having been sentenced to thirty days' confinement for a petty offcnce.and the Journal states that one of the constables of tho city is in jail, that two others ran away in the night and have not yet returned, and that an ex-Justice swindled a number of his "neighbors aud decamped. JjyTbere Is a man in Connecticut so much opposed to capital punishment that he refused to bang his gate. WHAT MEN DRIN K. A story has been going the rounds of the papers for several weeks, the gist of which Is contained in the following paragraph : "In tho manufacture of brandy from raw spirits, a certain artich called "essence of brandy," is sometimes used, which, In its pro perties is nearly allied to prusslc acid, and a drop or two will produce instant death. At Toronto, Canada, a manufacturer of brandy, named Morris, applied his tongue to s prepara tion of this essence with a view probably to ascertain its strength,- and in less than sixty seconds was a corpse." From the various commentaries which have been made in relation to this fatal experiment of touching one's tongue to the "essence of brandy," it would seem that many of our edi torial brethren have an extremely vague and indefinite idea of the natnre of this strange and potent "essence." We propose to en lighten them, to the end that they and their readers will have a good reason to adopt the "taste not" adage in relation to this and alt similar essences. The true essenco of all the alcoholic or in toxicating liquors in the world Is alcohol it self. "Raw spirit" is simply alcohol, diluted with water. Every other alcoholic beverage, whether known as "spirituous or malt liquors, wine," &c, is nothing more or less than alco hol and water, commonly knowp as "raw whis key" and certain extraneous admixtures, alias poisons. With this raw whiskey and the appropriate compound or essence, all kinds of liquors, rum, brandy, wine, gin, ale, beer, etc., in all their variety, can be made to order on very short notice, and of any required degree of flavor, pungency, or intoxicating potency. The manufacture of these compounds has be come quite an important business, and some of our chemists and druggists make their man ufacture and sale a speciality. The adulteration of alcohol, or the manufac tured fictitious liqnors, is as profitable to tho producer as it is killing to the consumer. For example, ten cents' worth of arsenic or corro stive sublimate, added to a barrel of rum, bran dy, gin, or whiskey, will double its commer cial Value, thatf is, it will enable the dealer to add to it a barrel of water, and still have the same potency to effect, or disturb, or stimu late the system as an ordinary glass, or drink, or dose. But if the well-skilled manufacturer wishes to augment the power of his liquor to act on the brain and nervous system rather than on the digestive and circulating system, that is, to intoxicate and stupefy rather than excite or irritate, he has only to change the leading drug ot his "essence" from a caustic to a uarcotio. Instead of arsenic, cayenne, corrosive subli mate, phosphorus, etc., he will use prussic acid, strychnine, henbane, belladona, etc. A dollar's worth of either of these drugs will increase the potency of a whole barrel of alcohol, in whatever form or disguise.it may appear as a baveragc, one hundred per cent. Hence, if a barrel of brandy, without es sence," will amount, when retailed by the drink, to one hundred and twenty dollars and ninety-six ceufs, (we aiiow half a (eiii lor a drink, price six cents,) one dollar invested in prussic acid or strychnine will enable the same barrel to bear an equal amount of water, while each drink will "make drunk come," equal to the genuine article, and if the flavoring and pungency is carefully managed with extract of logwood, burnt sugar, sulphuric acid, vitriol, sugar of lead, grains of paradise, cocculus in dicus, bops, alum, horse-radish, "botanical" juniper, lime, chamber lye, etc., the "most fastidious taste" will not be offended, and the "connoisseur" will find his cultivated appe tency and 'sensuality fully satisfied, while the dealer gets for his barrel of brandy two hundred and forty-one dollars and ninety-twe ceuts. The paragraph above quoted represents tho "essence of brandy" which killed the Toronto manufacturer, to be in its properties, "very , nearly allied to prussic uciJ. It is indeed to. It is as nearly allied to prussic acid as prussia acid is to itself. The same experiment baa been tried many timer before, and with exact ly the same result. Many chemists, physi cians and apothecaries have accidently tasted the contents of a bottle containing prussic. acid, and "in le.s than sixty seconds wete corpses." Life Illustrated. In the Bull-fighting days, a blacksmith who was rearing a bull-pup, induced his father to go on all-fours and imitate the bull. The ca nine pupil pinned the old man by the nose. The son, disregarding the paternal roaring, ex- . cUimcd, "hold him, Growler, boy, held him ! Bear it, daddy, bear it ! It will be the making of the pup!" . , JX7""Do you sell pies T" asked a green look ing fellow, as he lounged into a confectioner's in Wellington street. "Pies sir?" replied the gentlemanly proprietor. "Yes sir; a'l sorts ; what kind of pie will you Lave, sir t" "Well, I think I'll take a mag pie. .; ; . An Irishman remarked to his companion, o observing a lady pass, "Pat, did yoa ever see so thin a woman as that before r" Thin,' replied the other, "botberashen, I seen a wo man as tbin aa two of her put together, I have." There aro now sevea murderers in the Pitta- burgbjail. . PresidentBuchanan is now atBedfora.pnsge
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